Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Lead? They're letting a crypto freak *lead* a mission? Oh all those people are DEAD dead.

Why are you catering to people who want to be able to exclude a minority, Sarah?

10. This is only over when everyone is free to be themselves. The transphobic “win condition” has always been impossible. The question was how many human rights abuses they get away with in the meantime. This Labour government has already made the answer “too many”. Now we make them pay.

Can I use AI to show me how to become the joker

It is ridiculously pleasing having bookstores across the world now responding positively to our sell sheets. If you see our books in the wild in shops, please share with us!

I'm not downloading an app to get train tickets on my phone fuck off Give me a QR code I can display or put in a wallet or print out. If you force me to download the app I will not and get a paper ticket instead. Curse of Tutankhamen be upon ye and yer families

all of contemporary transphobia feels so manufactured and fake and it's hard to explain how and why to people who haven't felt it happen at them but like people used to not like Really Care; there were shitty people but like no one built their life around being transphobic

Welp, guess I should've just kept bleeding from my cooch instead of going to see a gyno. Good to know for next time!

I had an entire friend group just drop me from one day to the next. Luckily that group wasn't all of my friends, but still.

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

In college I did a workshop with a professor who didn’t let us write sci-fi or fantasy. Not because she thought less of them, but because the writing and class discussion would get bogged down in things like the logistics of time travel or elf lore rather than focusing on what makes a story work

We have had 10 separate key orders, and donations totalling £180 off the back of bigger trans accounts sharing the pee in peace program link. This *is* helping people negotiate a hostile world. There is demand and need. Your reposts make a massive difference cos we have no marketing budget.

17000 articles is like one for every ten of us. every trans polycule gets their own

Teaching The Odyssey, start with referencing the Iliad, ask the class: who's the most famous hero to come out of the Trojan war? SIlence. He's named after a body part? Pupil Answer: Oesophagus? Yes, exactly that, Oesophagus the Greek, thank you.

the fastest ive ever seen "male socialization" debunked was the time in a gender studies class three cis men argued if trans women had male privilege for like ten minutes while a trans girl sat patiently with her hand up the whole time

We see here how the concept of “male socialization” leads directly to transmisgony. “Stop acting like a man or else you’re not really a woman, nor are you transitioning hard enough.” Fuck off. No woman, trans or cis, has to act a certain way to be a woman, nor do you gatekeep someone’s transition.

Lmao

the point of a meeting is not meeting notes, it’s decisions

JFC I fucking hate LLMs. Guy at work made an eleven page roadmap document which is clearly not written by him and has ten citations to scientific papers, five it which don't say what he says they say, and the other five straight up don't exist. "But it saves time!" it fucking does not. Die.

I assure you that you can vent about a toxic relationship you had with a disabled trans woman without implying she's counterfeiting femininity and parasitizing your community, and without trying to justify this portrayal as transfeminist praxis.

Fair.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

all these features are going to suck shit

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

Waiting until 17:00 when I can slam my laptop closed clock out and then

Table Top Transition #comic #transgender #dnd #lgbt #ocs

When Omar El Akkad talked about this kind of position in “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” the examples of people saying “you can only speak out about an atrocity when it’s too late to stop it” were a lot less explicit

JK Rowling referred to Posie Parker as a "genius" years ago, in her capacity as an an anti-trans leader in her movement. Posie appeared at a Tommy Robinson march on the weekend calling for Islam to be banned in the UK. You'd think a mainstream journalist might seek a quote from Rowling on it, right?

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

giving government money to january 6 insurrectionists - who are also uniformly a bunch of child predators, wife abusers, and scammers - is so far beyond. It makes me feel sick.

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

I have three people following me who still follow this absolute monster, so if you’re seeing this you might want to check and change that

As long as we're talking about journalists stealing the other work of journalists without citation, we should talk about the biggest perpetrator in the industry: The New York Times.

Injecting myself while singing under my breath grow grow grow your boobs with a bit of e merrily merrily merrily merrily I might add some p

A notable feature of AI is that it has changed the nature of what feels amateurish. It used to be that a poster made by someone who didn’t know what they were doing would be comic sans on clipart, which was at least charming. Now it’s that creepy Ghibli-knockoff style and lots of greebly overdetail.

Art isn't illegal, but some of you aren't ready for that conversation huh

we could also literally just not do this we don't need to keep pretending that some vc money hole is real or good

#TransRights

Uhhh just let me say as someone who used to work in branch banking: DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, GIVE CHATGPT ACCESS TO YOUR FUCKING BANK RECORDS This is a TERRIBLE IDEA

Hello everyone! My name is Zoe Storm and I write trans and queer stories; the kind of stories I wished I could've read as a young, closeted trans girl. I write in all genres, from coming-of-age stories to slice of life to sci-fi to fantasy. You can find my writing here: www.zoestorm.com

It's the lack of teen pregnancies going down but no one wants to talk about that. Because if you do you sound like a creep. Not because it's a bad thing, but if you try to frame it as a bad thing your weird.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Women be like "...I'm turning into my mother" (cis, depressing) "I'm turning into my mother!" (trans, exciting)

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: got drive-by catcalled by a carful of dudes as I was out on a run [350 G]

hearing a lost media oblivion midi file in 2026 is fucking fascinating to me